FAST TO A FLOE. 
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negative all hope of protection at their base: the 
pack or floe, so much feared before, was now looked 
to for a refuge. 
I remember well our anxiety as we entered the 
loose streams of drift after four hours’ scudding, and 
our relief when we felt their influence upon the sea. 
We fastened to an old floe, not fifty yards in dia¬ 
meter, and, Avith the weather-surf breaking over our 
heads, rode out the storm under a Avarp and grapnel. 
